Network Appliance is suing Sun for ZFS
Network Appliance is suing Sun over patents alleged to cover parts of the ZFS filesystem. The announcement comes from NetApp’s founder and Executive VP Dave Hitz’s blog. NetApp++!
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Network Appliance is suing Sun over patents alleged to cover parts of the ZFS filesystem. The announcement comes from NetApp’s founder and Executive VP Dave Hitz’s blog. NetApp++!
If it’s really true, VMware gigant can be in big trouble.
“Writing on his blog VentureCake, Linux specialist Mike MacCana thinks he might have found a bit of rust on VMware’s shining armor. He claims that VMware’s ESX server is derived from Linux, and therefore is not legally re-distributable as proprietary software.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/16/vmware_derived_from_linux/
http://www.venturecake.com/the-vmware-house-of-cards/
The long story short, it’s Novell’s tour to own the copyright of UNIX now :)
“[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.”
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070810165237718
And what reply SCO?
“Although the district judge ruled in Novell’s favor on important issues, the case has not yet been [...]
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